Army Corps of Engineers

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News about Army Corps of Engineers, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

May. 24, 2015

J David Rogers study in journal Water Policy, coming decade after Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, seeks to place additional blame on United States Army Corps of Engineers for failures in city's flood protection system; article comes amid for legal accountability on part of federal government restitution for those affected by Katrina's floodwaters. MORE

May. 2, 2015

Federal Judge Susan G Braden rules that United States government must shoulder some cost for flooding damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 because New Orleans area's hurricane protection system built by Army Corps of Engineers failed to do its job. MORE

Mar. 8, 2015

Coral reefs near Port of Miami, Fla, including endangered staghorn coral, are being damaged by Army Corps of Engineers-led dredging project intended to make way for supersized cargo ships; damage has led to outcry and lawsuit by environmentalists. MORE

Feb. 5, 2015

Nation's locks are deteriorating, slowing barges on rivers and delaying commerce; United States Army Corp of Engineers, whose budget Pres Obama wants to cut, says it needs $13 billion to fix decrepit locks through 2020; 70-year-lock near Paducah, Ky, will be replaced, but not until at least 2023. MORE

Aug. 5, 2014

Army Corps of Engineers settles lawsuit that will force it to disclose for first time amount of pollutants its dams send into waterways. MORE

Apr. 14, 2014

Environmentalists argue that Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build dam inside New Jersey's South Mountain Reservation would kill dense stands of trees and other vegetation that now form the most scenic swath of the park; proposal is one of seven flood-mitigation alternatives for the Rahway River Basin; during Tropical Storm Irene and other major storms, the Rahway River has caused severe flooding in downstream communities. MORE

Apr. 25, 2013

Cleanup of New York after Hurricane Sandy has cost taxpayers at least twice as much as national post-disaster average; city chose Army Corps of Engineers to handle job, rather than using private contractors; federal officials defend exceptionally high cost, about $177 million for nearly one million cubic yards, saying it is justified by complicated assignment of quickly disposing of debris in midst of a major urban area. MORE

Jan. 18, 2013

Mississippi River remains open to shipping following remarkable action by Army Corps of Engineers that effectively lowered channel bottom by two feet; record-low water levels following drought had threatened to shut down waterway. MORE

Jan. 5, 2013

Army Corps of Engineers and Coast Guard officials say efforts to keep crucial stretch of drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic should be sufficient enough to avert a shipping shutdown. MORE

Dec. 24, 2012

Midwestern drought has brought Mississippi River to water levels so low that they threaten to shut down shipping; Army Corps of Engineers begins to destroy rock formations in river that hinder navigation, but rejects requests to release more water from reservoirs along Missouri River. MORE

Dec. 8, 2012

Army Corps of Engineers turns back requests by federal lawmakers and barge industry to release more water from Missouri River, believing that drought-starved Mississippi River it feeds will remain open to shipping despite mounting concerns about water levels. MORE

Dec. 5, 2012

Supreme Court rules that people whose property was damaged by intermittent flooding caused by government may seek compensation; unanimous decision reverses a lower court ruling that had barred claims for flood damage unless the flooding was permanent or recurring; case arose from activities of Army Corps of Engineers. MORE

Nov. 30, 2012

United States Army Corps of Engineers begins demolishing house in Washington neighborhood of Spring Valley built in 1990s atop what is believed to be chemical weapon pit from World War I; nearly 20-year cleanup project has been marred by missteps and stubborn questions over what lies beneath. MORE

Nov. 27, 2012

Drought of 2012 is causing restrictions on barge traffic on Mississippi River; situation could worsen as Army Corp of Engineers, as part of annual process that will reduce amount of water flowing from upper Missouri River into Mississippi, may affect shipment of $7 billion in agricultural and other projects. MORE

Nov. 17, 2012

Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where tons of debris was sifted through after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, has once again been enlisted after a disaster, this time to serve as the staging area for the monumental cleanup job under way since Hurricane Sandy hit; cleanup has turned into a 24-hour-a-day, military-scale operation at Fresh Kills, with the New York City Sanitation Department and the Army Corps of Engineers. MORE

Oct. 6, 2012

Rep Dave Camp says Army Corps of Engineers will not meet legal deadline for completing plan to prevent Asian carp from invading Great Lakes, and that he plans to hold corps accountable. MORE

Oct. 6, 2012

Editorial holds the Supreme Court should uphold precedent and rule the government is not required to pay for temporary water damages to private land in Arkansas caused by controlled flooding program run by the Army Corps of Engineers. MORE

Sep. 25, 2012

Federal appeals court reverses itself, ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers is not liable for devastation caused in Hurricane Katrina from the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a government-built navigation canal. MORE

Aug. 30, 2012

Reporter's Notebook; Army Corps of Engineers nervously monitors water levels and the levees, gates and pumps intended to protect New Orleans from a repeat of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, as Hurricane Isaac takes its toll on the city. MORE

Aug. 28, 2012

Army Corps of Engineers is considering alternatives to expensive repairs to a levee built in 1937 in Zoar, Ohio, including razing buildings in the village. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

Editorial calls on Pres Obama to release policy guidance drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency that clarifies the duty of the Army Corps of Engineers to protect all bodies of water under the Clean Water Act; argues that the Obama administration has held up the essential document in order to avoid an election-year political fight. MORE

Mar. 3, 2012

Three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upholds a ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers is liable for property owners' claims, saying shoddy work on a shipping channel caused billions of dollars in damage during Hurricane Katrina. MORE

Feb. 6, 2012

New budget for the Army Corps Engineers includes $507 million in special funds for side projects; critics contend that such special funds are merely a new Congressional method for allocating money to pet projects in the wake of a moratorium on legislative earmarks. MORE

Feb. 5, 2012

Officials and residents in the Mississippi River flood plain near St Louis, Ill, are accusing the Army Corps of Engineers of raising safety standards for levees to unreasonable levels, heaping millions of dollars of unnecessarily expensive repair and insurance costs on their communities; Corps, flush with stimulus money from the federal government, has indeed raised the frequency and standards of their levee inspections, but contend they have done so only to avoid potentially catastrophic damages from flooding. MORE

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